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Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.

Berthold Auerbach

Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
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Command Work
Some men, like modern shops, hang everything in their show windows; when one goes inside, nothing is to be found.
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Men Modern Window
People look with sympathetic eyes only at the blossom and the fruit, and disregard the long period of transition during which the one is ripening into the other.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Eye Long Maturity
If you sound great in the practice room, you’re practicing the wrong thing. Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
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Dust Practice Soul
Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts and strives without fear to do justice to them.
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Fear Justice Strive
All men are selfish, but the vain man is in love with himself. He admires, like the lover his adored one, everything which to others is indifferent.
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Men Selfish Vanity
Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.
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Emotion Good Habit Mother
To acquire money requires valor, to keep money requires prudence, and to spend money well is an art.
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Art Money Valor
Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.
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Abstract Creeds Institutions
We hear the rain fall, but not the snow. Bitter grief is loud, calm grief is silent.
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Fall Grief Rain Silent
To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.
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Harbor Hatred Soul
No mortal eye has ever fully seen a flash of lightning … for no matter how firmly we look, our eyes are sure to be dazzled.
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Eye Lightning Looks
Years teach us more than books.
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Inspirational Life Wisdom
Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.
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Acceptance Love Loving Yourself
I have been young and am now old, and have not yet known an untruthful man to come to a good end.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Corruption Ends Men
We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
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Important Tedious Weather

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